Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk in the White House all one day last week happy in the thought that before another dawn he would get rid of Congress for six months. Towards evening he paused to dictate the customary letter of farewell and appreciation from the President to his co-workers at the Capitol...
...session with House & Senate leaders, President Roosevelt went cruising down the Potomac last week on the Sequoia. With him went two baskets crammed full of official papers-each paper a problem. The President was tired, mentally and physically. But there could be no rest for him until the Capitol becomes empty and silent again this week or next...
...likelihood will bring clown upon the White House and on the State Department the same tariff lobby which, like a swarm of locusts, has plagued the Capitol for generations...
...commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation of General Washington) in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol for which the Government paid him the generous sum of $32,000. Most striking in the gallery of early Americans was a dynamic Head of Lafayette by Inventor-Painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse...
...opened it contained a brand new vest-pocket-size dollar, desired by many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There is also a tradition that he who chooses a silver casket "shall get as much as he deserves." Most silverites in Congress professed to be pleased. Senator Key Pittman...